Web-based Rehabilitation After Surgical Salvage Procedures for Wrist Osteoarthritis

Launched by KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET · Feb 3, 2025

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is looking at a new way to help people recover from wrist osteoarthritis after they have surgery. Wrist osteoarthritis often happens because of past injuries, and it can cause a lot of pain. After trying other treatments like exercises or medication, some people may need surgery to relieve their pain. The trial will compare a web-based rehabilitation program, which people can do online, with traditional in-person rehabilitation sessions to see if they help patients recover just as well.

To be part of this trial, participants must be scheduled for specific types of wrist surgery and should have access to digital tools for online sessions. People with certain types of arthritis or other specific conditions may not be eligible. If you join the trial, you can expect to participate in rehabilitation activities, either through the web or in person, and share your feedback on how well you are recovering. This study aims to make rehabilitation more accessible and effective for everyone.

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• * Planned surgery:
• • Four corner fusion (4CF)
• • Lunate-Capitate fusion (LCF)
• • Scaphoid-Trapezium-Trapezoid fusion (STT)
• • Radius-Scaphoid-Lunate fusion (RSL)
• • Proximal Row Carpectomy (PRC)
• • Access to digital identification.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Unstable rheumatoid arthritis or other chronic inflammatory arthritis. However, stable inflammatory arthritis with unchanged medication during the last 12 weeks is not an exclusion criteria.
• • History of psoriasis arthritis, gout, or pseudogout affecting the hand or wrist.
• • Symptomatic OA in nearby joints.
• • Inability to co-operate with the follow-up protocol (language difficulties, severe psychiatric disorder, cognitive impairment, drug addiction, inability to use web-based tools).